If you ever needed a good beer, 2020 was the year. And Colorado breweries didn’t disappoint. The three-hour Denver Prohibition, shuttered taprooms and bars statewide, an aluminum can shortage, permanent closures and other pandemic hardships certainly didn’t make it easy. The industry’s ability to pivot and make the best of a bad situation — not […]
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Best Colorado beer: A look at the favorite beers and breweries in 2019 and ones to watch in the next year
The 2019 year in beer is one to remember in Colorado. The entire landscape shifted with the sale of the state’s largest brewery, New Belgium, to a Japanese beverage company. It came as another veteran, Avery Brewing, sold all but 10% of the company to a Spanish beer maker and the state’s first microbrewery, Boulder […]
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Beer of the Year: A look at the best Colorado breweries from 2018
Ask any five Colorado brewers or beer fans for the best brewery in the state, and you’ll probably get five different answers. For The Colorado Sun’s inaugural beer of the year poll, we asked hundreds of brewers, industry experts and beer enthusiasts and found a similar result — each has a favorite and their own reasons […]